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When I try to launch nautilus i got this error:

nautilus: error while loading shared libraries: libunity.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I got the same with Marlin & Brasero.

I have tried this command:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libunity.so.9 /usr/lib/libunity.so.6

but it doesn't work at all.

Im going to cry... Please help me!

kOol
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Are you on Oneiric? You could try

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libunity6

How to obtain this answer?

I first used

ldd /usr/bin/nautilus | grep unity

to check that it indeed needs libunity.so.6 on my machine as well. Then i ran

dpkg -S /usr/lib/libunity.so.6

to find out what package contains that file. It turns out that the package is libunity6. So it makes sense to try to reinstall it, which is what the above command does.

Timo Kluck
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  • I got this error:

    Reinstallation of libunity6 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.

    What should I do now?

     – kOol Feb 07 '12 at 12:29
  • Try sudo apt-get update and then try again. If that does not help: try going to the software centre, edit -> software sources, and select 'download from: main server'. then sudo apt-get update and try again. – Timo Kluck Feb 08 '12 at 10:20
  • when I ran: dpkg -S /usr/lib/libunity.so.6

    I got this: dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/lib/libunity.so.6.

     – kOol Mar 12 '12 at 03:58